Liberdade substancial : pressuposto para o surgimento de tecnologias sociais em empreendimentos de economia solidária?

Abstract

The relationship between Entrepreneurship of Solidarity Economy and Social Technologies is worthy of attention, since both issues, in isolation, are of importance and complexity. If this was not enough, it is possible to establish an intersection between the two themes, which, in terms of aspects, they have communication with each other. In the pont of the necessity about clarifying the points of contact between solidary economy and social technologies, the main thesis proposes the following research problem: The existence, among solidarity workers, of relations aligned with the concept of substantial freedom is indispensable for the development of Social Technologies in the scope of Entrepreneurship of Solidary economy? In order to establish the necessary elements to face this question, the following specific objectives were gotten as a starting point: 1) the intersections between capacity and poverty were known; 2) It was accepted that the extent Social Technologies are formed from the convergence of political and social interests; 3) We analyzed the Undertakings of Solidary Economy as Social Technologies. To the analyses, in the first chapter, a convergence was created concerning the concepts of poverty and exclusion, which is in the discourses and positions of the most diverse natures; the readings have led to the conception of poverty as the fruit of the convergence of multiple factors, such as the weakening of jobs, environmental and climatic issues, and others; from these collaborations, the concept of inclusion-unjust was reached, in which although the worker performs paid activities, that is insufficient; in the first chapter yet, Amartya Sen's contributions were discussed, emphasizing concepts such as capacity and substantial freedoms, especially the concept of poverty as deprivation of liberty. In the second chapter, the issue of scientific non-neutrality was exposed, according to what technological artifacts are impregnated with the interests that constitutes their formation; also, the relationship between technologies and productivism, that is, the relationship between the current economic context and Conventional Technologies; Finally, the concept of Social Technology and the objectives made on this new technological model were explored. In the third chapter, the theory of Sociotechnical Adequacy was used, which seeks to understand the relations between social relations and technology; in it, the intersections between the technological format and the social injunctions were emphasized; Moreover, the basic concepts inherent in Solidarity Economy Entrepreneurship were emphasized, as well as the integration - or not - of these experiences in the context of labor exploitation. In the end, and as the main conclusion it was possible to see that, because of the relations between man and the technological artifact, the existence of a group of workers endowed with self-esteem, agency and, therefore, substantial freedoms, is something necessary for the flourishing of a Social Technology in the context of a Solidarity Economy Enterprise, because Social Technology must be the synthesis of the struggles and the personal achievements of the workers.